The American Medical Association voted this week by 71% to 29% to reaffirm its opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Testimony yesterday by medical students and residents on the dangers of the practice to both patients and the physician-patient relationship appear to have carried the day in a reference...
Kristen Hanson, Community Relations Advocate at the Patient's Rights Action Fund, and Stephanie Woodward, Director of Advocacy at the Center for Disability Rights and member of ADAPT, spoke with Susan Arbetter about assisted suicide....
Long time Not Dead Yet disability activist Mike Reynolds condemned today’s signing of “An Act To Enact the Maine Death with Dignity Act” by Governor Janet Mills. “This is a terrible day in the history of Maine that will lead to the untimely deaths of disabled...
The House of Medicine's longstanding division on physician-assisted suicide resurfaced at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates meeting, but with a fresh note of impatience this time around. At issue was what to do with a report from the AMA's Council on Ethical and...
The tragic death of Dutch teenager Noa Pothoven, a victim of molestation and rape, is devastating. Noa had cried out for years and even wrote a best-selling book, calling for specialized psychiatric care for young people. Conflicting reports about whether her death was euthanasia or...
Patients Rights Action Fund Applauds the American Medical Association for Reaffirming its Opposition to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by an Overwhelming Majority “Today was a big win for patients as the AMA sides with them and people with disabilities who would be at risk for deadly...
https://youtu.be/FUKXHzLYZF4 "Assisted suicide is one of the biggest threats to authentic medicine." -Dr. Tatiana Santos...
Recently, doctors in the Netherlands allowed a Dutch 17 year old girl suffering from depression to starve herself to death. And while the details are still under investigation, it is certainly clear that the system in the Netherlands failed her. In the Netherlands, euthanasia is...
The New York State Legislature did well when it rejected previous bills to legalize assisted suicide; it should do so again this session. Assisted suicide is an inherently discriminatory and dangerous public policy. The supposed "safeguards" are hollow and these laws send the message that...
"Disability rights advocates gathered in the state capital [May 29, 2019] to talk about the dangers of controversial assisted suicide practices." "The New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide strongly opposes the law for multiple reasons." "They say it gives insurers the ability to deny treatment to the...